Chaine

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in French: post-1990 spelling of chaîne

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ʃɛn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Chaine is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uruguay than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 8.1K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 169K
  • ESSpain1 in 5M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Uruguay (measured from records)

417 people

Sources
22 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

post-1990 spelling of chaîne

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

How Chaine is read(measured from records)

Chaine is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • French50%

    post-1990 spelling of chaîne

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish31%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Chaine in Spanish.

  • English14%

    Obsolete spelling of chain.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chaine counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Chaine is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UY Uruguay4171 in 8.1K417——
AR Argentina2691 in 169K269——
ES Spain101 in 5M10—2
BE Belgium21 in 5.9M2——
PL Poland21 in 19M2——

417 people counted by INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Chaine is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom

    Also written Chainé, Chaîné, Chaîne

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Chaîne

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Chainé, Chaîné, Chaîne

  • Arabic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, United States, Algeria

    Also written Çhäìnē, Chaîne, Chaïne

  • Thai given name98 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Indonesia, Laos

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written ใจเย็น, ชัยยันต์, ไชยยันต์, Jaiyen, Chaiyan

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Chaine is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In enm, alternative form of cheyne

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Nicolas Achille Chaine, b. 1814Henri Chaine, b. 1847Joseph Chaine, b. 1888Dominique Chaine, b. 1954Philippe Chaine, b. 1967Guillaume Chaine, b. 1986Jessica Chaine, b. 1986Sipho Chaine, b. 1996

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalMonsieur,Dear Mr Chaine, (English)
InformalBonjour Chaine,Hi Chaine, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 19 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Chaine
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—417—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—269—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—10#120,154
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20082#143,676
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#316,406

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Chaine mean, and where does it come from?
post-1990 spelling of chaîne Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Chaine?
A machine transcription gives /ʃɛn/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Chaine have the most bearers?
In Uruguay, the national register counted about 417 people named Chaine, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Chaine most common?
Chaine is densest in Uruguay, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.1 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Chaine?
In Uruguay, the national register counted 417 people named Chaine, about 1 in 8.1 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chaine”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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